July 05, 2003
Meese!
A certain someone has yet again suggested that my blog has been woefully short on content of late. Sure enough... here it is July, and my last post was mid-June. So, to keep the readership entertained (ye happy few) until I can find something interesting to talk about in my own life (ha. yeah... sorry.), I bring you this close encounter of the natural kind. My parents live much of the time in the Adirondacks of New York (this is not to say they're *not* alive some of the time, but that life is carried on in other places). Of late, some of New York's "forever wild" critters have been coming back from whence they fled upon the arrival of the tourists ("whence" being the same place any sane person flees to in times of distress: Canada). Dad's seen a few in the area, but this time, he had his camera. ^_^
This particular wild thing decided to "return" to a cow farm down the road, although my father mentioned recent evidence that they've been on our property, too. Moose are typically solitary, but this one got curious about the cows. He jumped the fence, and didn't have the takeoff room to jump out again. (Don't worry, they dropped the fence to let him out later.) The reason the moose's antlers look fuzzy is because they are-- these pictures were taken mid-June, while he was still in velvet (the pictures are fuzzy from distance, too, but not THAT fuzzy). Cool, neh?
